Trunk



LIPPMAN RAPHAEL, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 231,099, dated August 10, 1880.

v Application filed December 9, 1879.

To all 'whom t 'may concern:

Beit known that I, LIPPMAN RAPHAEL, of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Travelers Trunks,.ot' which the following is a speciication.

The invention relates to the covers or lids of trunks, and the manner otl securing the saine to the body of the trunk.

Heretofore trunk-covers have been made in one piece, being hinged at one side and locked at the other.

My invention consists in making the cover in two parts, hinged at both sides, being titted together centrally at the top. with hasp and lock at each end, so that the cover is iirmly secured to the body of the trunk on all its four sides, instead of but two sides, as heretofore.

Figure lis a perspective view ot' the two parts ofthe cover thrown open. Fig. 2 shows a strap of metal, und Fig'. 3 shows this strap bent into shape to be used to hold the covers from opening too tar. (See F, where the device shown in Fig. 3 is in place in Fig. 1.)

The hinge F is screwed to the cover and partlyr grasps the rod L, which passes through all the hinges on one side. There is a recess cut in the upper edge of the band G just wide enough to allow the narrow part of the hinge F to pass through, but not the shouldered end J. This helps to strengthen the main hinges as well as to relieve them from the strain of the covers when held open.

Fig. 4. shows a corner hinge. and K, Fig. 1.)

The parts I and K are made ot' one piece of metal. The part I projects from the rod L in a stra-ight line, vand is screwed on the top to both the end and side of the trunk-body;

(See parts I but the part K is bent down and riveted through the sides of the trunk. The upper part, P, of the hinge is continued as a band over the top ot' the cover. The ends ofthe cover G C are cut on a bevel in the direction of the dotted line M in Fig. 4, and this side ot' the cover is always closed down iirstand se' made to come up snugly against the outside cover.

Where the two parts otl the cover meet at the top I have a bar, N, over the seam yfrom end to end, and to its ends I hinge the hasps O O.

I claim as an improvement in trunks-- The top or cover divided at its center longitudinally,each section provided with side hinges and having end fastenings, all arranged as shown and described.

2. A trunk having its cover divided celltrally, provided with end fastcuings and stophinges F, all substantially as shown and described.

3. In a trunk, the combination, with the body and cover, of the hinge composed of the parts I, K, P, and L, all constructed land arranged substantially as shown.

LIPPMAN RAPHAEL.

Witnesses:

THos. S. MINNIP, W. H. ADDLE. 

